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IffPERIAL PARLIAM 3NT HOUSE Or LORDS—Last Eveni 31g, The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat oa the woolsack at 5 o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The following bills were read a second tin3e:—lSitoira and Greeley Road—West Shropshire Mineral Railway— Brongh Ferry Road—Caledonian Railway—Hamilton, Strathaven, and Caledonian Railway Companies—and Witney and Yeovil Railway. The following bills were read a third time and passed:— Chichester Harbour E mbankment—North Eastern Railway (York and Doncaster Branch)—and New Brighton Pier. PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Lord BROUGHAM inquired if her Majesty's Govern ment intended to appoint inspectors of middle-class schools. Earl GRANVILLE said that the subject had been under the consideration of the Committee of Council on Education, bat they did not see their way clear to appoint inspectors of schools that did not receive support from the Government, but were simply private speculations. Earl STANHOPE then rose to call the attention e)S their lordships to the report of the public schools comnnis eion, and especially to the course of instruction which is therein pursued, and inquired the intention of her Ma jesty's Government. He also moved for copies of any minute of the Treasury Board, or resolution of the Com mittee of the Privy Council respecting the recent report of the public schools commission. He was of opinion that too much time and labour was wasted upon composition and Greek prose and verse ; and he objected to the prope sal of the commissioners to appoint a council to advise the head mas ters of the great public schools—a measure which he was certain would destroy the influence and responsibility of these gentlemen, be powerless for good, and productive of the greatest evil. The Earl of CL ARENDON was highly gratified at the concurrence of Lord Stanhope in the necessity of a classical education as the substructure of all learning, and without which an intimate knowledge of English literature was im possible ; but the commissioners objected to classics or mathematics monopolising the whole education, especially in the case of boys who had no chance of excelling in those studies, and had developed an aptitude for other branches of learning. The great excellence of the system was that it turned out young men at 18 not only high spirited and honourable, but well grounded, well disciplined, and not in ferior in any one branch capable of directing their attention with advantage to any profession or pursuit. Still, whilst this was the result in the case of boys who devoted their time to study, the great complaint was that very few of the boys did devote their time to study, and many of them left school grossly ignorant. He regretted to say that the head • masters had shown a disposition to resist all improvements, especially as regarded instruction in modern languages ; and he believed that the commissioners would have done great good had they demonstrated the necessity of more attention being paid to modern languages, without which in the pre sent day a roan was really only half educated. The noble earl then defended the commissioners from the charge of insisting upon more branches of study than was possible in the case of boys at school, and argued in favour of imparting a knowledge of the natural sciences, not to the exclusion of other studies, but as a means of developing certain kinds of intellect. He denied that the proposed council would interfere with the authority of the head master, and said that the Government were of opinion that there would not be time this session to deal with the question of the consti tution of the governing bodies ; but on Monday he would bring in a short bill to provide that all persons who wore admitted to the governing body should be subject to the provisions of the more general measure which would here after be introduced. The subject then dropped, and the orders of the day having been disposed of their lordships adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.---Last Eveiling, The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The following bills were read a third time and passed:— Caledonian Railway (Glasgow Harbour Branches)—Edin burgh and Glasgow Railway—Glasgow and Paisley Joint Line of Railway—London and South Western (Additional Works)—London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway (New Lines in Battersea)—London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway (Steamboats)—and London, Chatham, and Dover Railway (No. 1). TRANSATLANTIC STEAMERS. Mr. SCULLY asked the President of the Board of Trade when he expected that the returns as to transatlantic steamers, ordered en the 14th of March last, would be laid before the house. Mr. M. GIBSON said that he had made inquiries, and he believed that, although great delay had necessarily taken place, the returns would be ready in about a week. Mr TOB,REIN.TS asked the President of the Beard of Trade when it was probable that the works at Portp arick harbour, now being carried out under direction of the Go vernment, would be completed . And, in the event of much further delay occurring in tb.o completion of the works whether the Government would take into consideration the propriety of having the mails conveyed to and from the North of Ireland via Stranraer and Larne. Mr M. GIBSON said that the works in question were in progress, but it was not probable that they would be com pleted during the present year. With regard to the second question. it had not been considered advisable to adopt any such temporary service as that alluded to. THE BRADFORD RESERVOIRS. Mr FERRAND asked the Secretary of State for the Homo Department if he was aware by whom Mr Rawlin son's report on the Bradford reservoirs was last week given to the Bradford corporation and the local press, when it has not yet been printed and delivered to members of the House of Commons Sir G. GREY repeated what he had previously stated, that no unnecessary delay would take place in laying the report on the table of the house, but it was requisite that it should be rendered as complete as possible. DISTINGUISHING FLAGS FOR MERCHANT SHIPS. Mr. HORSFALL asked the Secretary to the Admiralty whether any decision had been come to with reference to the terms on which a distinguishing flag might be hot ne by merchant ships commanded by officers of the Royal Naval Reserve, partially armed and manned by Royal Naval Re serve semen. Lord C. PAGET said that at prasent no decision had been come to on the subject. THE DESPATCH OF COUNT BISMARK. TO THE BRITISH AMBASSADOR. In reply to Mr, B. COCHRANE, Mr. LAYARD said that the despatch in question had not been officially communicated to her Majesty's Govern. TUE EXACTIONS IN JUTLAND. Mr. D. GRIFFITH asked the First Lcrd of the Trea sury, whether he w da not aware that the Prussians do not pay for the supplies they exact in Jutland in money, but only by acknowledgments of the amounts in question, which amounts they intended to reckon up against the Danish Government on a future occasion, under the pre tence of claims for the expenses of the war, or other de mands ; and, whether the British Government would allow such a departure from one of the leading conditions of the armistice to which they are parties? Lord PALMERSTON said that from the latest acci-L ants it appeared that provisions w ould in future be lie d to the Pru ss i an t r oops in H olstei nSchleswig - that the val ue o f the levies made in Ju tt ed would pp o trachte, a r n e d . stored. (He ar , h ear. ) THE ALLEGED MILIT CRY VICTORIES IN Mr. HALIBUR,To . co mmunications drew attention to the startling ado as to the military events in America this month recorded in the newspapers, and asked if the Government possessed any °facia.), information confirmatory of theso. Lord PALMERSTOII said he could not state anything positively in reference to these accounts. ARMY PRIZES. On the order for going into committee of supply, Sir S. NORTILiOTE moved that an humble address be presented to b . - ,e Majesty, praying that she would be gra ciously pl`,ased to proceed in the distribution of the Banda principle of actual capture, and K:.rwee booty, upon the a 8 recommended in the report of the Royal Commission on Army Prize ; and, should there be any dispute as to the troops entitled upon that principle to share in the distribu tion, to refer the question to some competent tribunal. H e said this was a motion which had reference to the whole question of army prizes, the distribution of which he con tended was in a most unsatisfactory position. The report of the commission alluded to justified the complaints that were made, and an evil was shown which required full redress. It was evident that the subject was one that, at all events, required a full and impartial inquiry. He drew attention to what had occurred in regard to what had been effected by Gen. Whitlock, whose feats in the district to which his motion refeered were performed without assistance, and yet his troops were allowed only a portion of the prize money to w hi c h their valour maned them. (Hear, hear.) There was no doubt of the fact ho had stated, for it was well known that Sir Hu g h Rose, who participat e d i n th e prize money in the operation . of General Whitlock, was actually proceeding in a direction opposite to that of those operations. He admitted the great merits of Sir Hugh Rose, and in anything he said ho did not, in the slightest degree, wish to disparage an officer of such ability. The h en. baronet having entered into other details to show the in justice of constructive right of p tiz money as compared to actual right, appealed to the house not to be dazzled by splendid feats, but really to look to three who had earned the prize money. Lord PALMERSTON thought the Government and the hou-H were indebted to the honourable baronet for having moved the appointment of a cmintis.iion last, year, the nce,-;s.ity for which no doubt esktcd. He had come tv t he comp lusita that it was deArable that thiA sub ject ah ul t h ~ .ferred to the 11.4 th Court of Admir-dty, whiol he considered a more fitting tribunal for dealing with the question than !Ilia house. He thought there watt some coufus:on in regarJ to the terms constructive cap ture, and actual capture, which, by being dealt with in too strict a sense, led to erroneous practical conclusions. Sir S. NORTHCOTE expressed his consent ro the sub ject being referred to the High Court of Admiralty. REGISTERING TITLES TO LAND IN IRELAND. Mr. SCULLY moved that an hamole address be pre sented to her Majesty, praying that sh 3 would be gra ciously pleased to issue a commission to inquire and re port as to the best system for registering titles to land in Ireland, and to frame a measure for that purpose ; also to consider and report as to the creation of transferable deben tures upon land in Ireland. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL for IRELAND said there was no controversy whatever about the principle enunciated by Mr. Scully, and the advantage of carrying out his views for freedom of trade in land by means of a free and cheap system of transfer would be one of the greatest boons to Ireland. For affecting this object the Landed. Estates Courts afforded peculiar facilities, but it was 'necessary to see that the principle was carried out safely, cautiously, aad without injury to the interests of the country, and that the machinery of the court was sufficient for the purpose without introducing a new and expensive machinery. Ho thought, however, it was quite possible to frame a measure that would be satisfactory to the house and the country, and that it would be more becoming and accordant 'with precedent and principle that a measure affecting such large interests and involving such great con ' sequences to the community should be brought in upon the responsibility of the Government. Having regard to all the circumstances of the case he was prepared to state that the matter was now under the consideration of the executive, and that a measure was in preparation which he trusted would be worthy the consideration of the house, and which it was his intention to introduce before the end of the present or at the beginning of the next session. After some remarks from Mr. MONSELL, Mr. HASSAED, and other members, the motion was withdrawn. Mr. LO.NGFIELD called attention to the purchase by the Law Life Assurance Company of large estates in Mayo and Galway, and the results attending their acquisition and management of the property. The evictions on the estates, the hon. member said, were numerous ; no encou ragement was given to the tenants, and the possession of the estates by the company was, he believed, a curse to that part of the country. They had evaded the statute under which they were acting, and he contended that the Legislature ought to deal with them, and that the Crown ought, in its discretion, to seize on the whole of the land and confiscate it, as having been acquired contrary to the provisions of the law. Lord J. BROWNE defended the company for having in terposed, during the famine years, at the sale of the pro • perty in the Encumbered Estates Court. The sale having been promoted, not by them, but the second encumbrance, the land would not have realised more than one-fourth of their claim upon it, and since it had come into their hands it had been managed as well as, nay, better than, the pro perty of any other absentee landlords. Mr. MURRAY (one of the directors of the Law Life Assurance Company) said that the company bad never heard any complaints of their management, and assured the house that thtir efforts had been sedulously directed to make the tenants prosperous and contented. Moreover, if any landed gentleman in Ireland would come forward and pur chase the estates, the company would be happy to sell them upon the valuation of any respectable land valuer. Mr. GREGORY observed that he had received several letters from owners of property in both Mayo and Galway, confirming to its full extent the statement made by Mr. Laagfield. Sir R. PEEL deprecated the discussion as calculated to create unjust and angry feelings against the Law Life A.s euranL•e Company, who held the estates against their own will in consequence of advances made by them to a man who nad been unable to repay them. At first he was disposed to agree in the opinions expressed:by Mr Gregory, buk, upon a full and fair investigation of the whole case, he honestly believed that the company had not otherwise administered the property than in a manner conducive to the interests of the tenants. Sir T. BURKE was of opinion that the company had well managed the property, though owing to the miserable condition in which it was when it first came into their hands some evictions had undoubtedly been enforced. Mr MAGUIRE remarked that the tenants were afraid to improve their holdings lest their rents should be raised or themselves turned out of their occupations. After a few words from Mr SCULLY, the motion was withdrawn. Mr WHALLEY directed attention to the instructions issued by the Police Commissioner as to the suppression of public meetings in the parks, and the power assumed by subordinate officers of the police force, pursuant to those instructions, in suppressing a recent meeting at Primrose hill, and in doing so indulged in some severe strictures on the administration of the police and the arbitrary measures resorted to by Sir Richard Mayne. Sir G. GREY said that the parks were the property of the Crown, and were dedicated to the public use, subject to certain conditions and restrictions, which were essential to the object for which they were handed over to the public. With regard to the Garibaldian meeting lately suppressed at Primrose-hill, he regretted that the police had exceeded their duty on the occasion, and the inspector who interfered had since been reprirnanded. The house then went into committee of supply proforma. The Publ , c and Refreshment Houses (Metropolis) Bill was read a second time. The Union Assessment Committee Act Amendment Bill, the Army (Prize of Deceased) Bill, and the Chain Cables and Anchors Bill were read a third time and passed. Leave was given to bring in several bills, and the other business on the paper having been disposed of, the house adjourned at 10 minutes to 1 o'clock. RAILWAY BILLS, On Thursday, in Lord Stanley's Committee on the Metropolitan R tilways, Mr. Oakley, surveyor, Mr. Grierson, traffic manager of the Great Western Rail , ,vey, Mr. S. Clarke, of the Great Northern, the Doke of Montrose, and other gentlemen were ex amined in favour of the bill by the Hon. Mr. Lid dell. On the Great Eastern and Northern Junctiun Bill, the trsffic of the West Riding and North Riding expected to flow on to both lines was con sidered. In the case of the City of Glasgow Union Railway, the Chairman (Mr. Scholefield) said they were not satisfied with the way in which the pro moters of the bill proposed to raise their capital, and that they must reject the bill. In the other committees evidence in favour of the Dublin Rail way was received. The case of the Bourton-on-the- Water Railway in opposition to the East Gloceste shire was opened. Evidence in favour of tl , "d La ; . cashire Union Railway was continued. Yesterday, in the Committer. Railways, the opposition ec . on Metropolitan the corporation of the gill of the London and Eack „in:A, and the opposition of the East city of London to Or ' wall Railway r' and Wes , - floe , India Doak Ccynpany was opened. Mr. .41ey, the general mwagar cf the Great EAstern, was examined by Mr. Burke in favour of the pro• posed Great Eastern Northern Junction Railway. The case for the Dublin Railway was concluded in Mr. Baillie's committee, Mr. Calvert, Q.C., being heard against it for the Earl of Pembroke. Subse quently, Mr. Sergeant O'Brien opened the case of the Great Southern and Western and Midland of Ireland, in favour of which witnesses were ex amined. The bill for the Bourtoo.on-the-Water, fora line of 15 miles from the Great Western at Cheltenham to Bourton-on-the-Water, and to raise £400,000 by shares, and £133,000 by loan, was considered and evid ence t a k en . Wi tnesses wt , re examined in favou r of the 'reign Valley Bill, for five branches to connect it with the London and South Western and South Devon Railways, and to The opposition to th e L an raise i9, 0 (0 ) further by sumsloan. an : of £285,000 by s h ares , an d cashire Union still occupies that committee. In the Lords, the bill'of the West Ridi ng and Grimsby, for sundry extensions , stations, and j unct i ons, was declared proved. The bill for the W atford and Edgeware RailWaY wto passed in L or d Redesdale's committee. Persons in debt may obtain instant protection ag a i nst imprisonment or seizure of their goods, and an entire release from all debts and liaLilities without publicity, by application to Messrs. Marshall, solicitors of the Court of Bankrupt c y . Charees under £5 payable by easy instalments. Offices, (established 1830), 12 ,llatton-garden. City branch --6. Moor gate-street, Bank.—ADVT. 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Upon my return here I find that the clerks, male and female, employed in the clipping and signing of Confederate Treasury notes have been ordered to report at Columbia, South Carolina, where the notes are printed, and that the employes in the Second Auditor's bureau have been transferred to Mont gomery, Alabama, the town in which the Provi- sional Government was originally organised. This step has been taken, as I learn from the most trust worthy sources, in consequence of the scarcity of provisions in Richmond, which, since the beginning of the war, haft at once been a besieged city and a city of refuge and resort. The deficiency of trans. portation arising from the deterioration of the rail way lines and the deficiency of food in Virginia . . _ arising from the occupancy of important grain growing districts by the enemy, to say nothing of the presence here at all times of a large number of Government employes, refugees, visitors, and per- sons belonging to the army, render it necessary for Government to practise the utmost economy in the consumption of food. It is not improbable, there fore, that other persons connected with its service at the capital, whose duties ca❑ be performed as well at one place as another, will be sent to points more convenient to supplies. As has already been intimated, this order was not issued at the suggestion of the War Office. On the contrary, reasonable confidence is felt, both in official and unofficial circles, that General Lee will he able to give a good account of him self in the pending coßflict. A battle between himself and General Grant is imminent, and may take place any day if the present dry weather continues. During the whole of February and the early part of March the weather was favour able to military operations, but since the 15th ult. it has been unusually wet and cold ; otherwise, it is not improbable that General Lee would have given his antagonist battle before this time. It is known that General Grant, in anticipation of such an event, is now concentrating his army in front of General Lee, and that General Sherman is concen trating his at Chattanooga in front of General Johnston. Indeed, the United States may be said to have now only three armies in the field—the army now assembled in Richmond, the army in the vicinity of Chattanooga, and the army under General Banks in the Red River country. The coasts, rivers, and inland towns have been stripped of their garrisons in a great measure, and every available man sent for ward for the reinforcement of these three principal armies. Thus, at the beginning of the fourth year of the war, the Federal Government finds it necessary to abandon much of the territory whi c h its armies have overrun, in the vain hope that by missing great bodies of men, and hurling them upon parti cular points, they may be able to reach a vital part of the Confederacy. But the truth is, the Confe deracy, like Milton's archangel, has no vital part ; it is instinct with equal life and resistance through out all its parts and members. The possession of Richmond, as of New Orleans and Chattanooga, would certainly not be without its advantages to General Grant ; but, aside from its moral effect here and on the other side of the Potomac, the evacua tion of the town by the Confederates, and the with drawal of their army further south, where it would be more convenient to supplies, wield be a - positive benefit to them. The necessity of di:lending Rich mond has always been asource of embarrassment to General Lee, as well as (I work of exceeding diffi culty, owing to the 'peculiar geographical coefigura lion of Eastern. Virginia, and the want of a 'fleet of gunboats. l'his will be apparent to the intelligent reader upon an inspection of the map, without which all military speculations are so much vain verbiage. But it should not be inferred from what is here said that the authorities have any thought of abandon ing the capital, or that the country is without strategic points of great importance. Intelligence received here within the last few days has, it is believed, put the Confederate autho rities in full pOssession of General Grant's plan of campaign in Virginia. It is uow understocd that he will move on Richmond with three columns— at any rate with two, each one moving by a different route and having a distinct base. The first under General Grant himself will move from the line of the Rappahannock ; the second under General Butler will move from Fortress Monroe by way el the peninsula, following the route that M`Clellan took, and the third, led by General Burnside, and consisting of the corps he is assembling at Anna polis, will operate on the south side of James River, and seek to cut the railway line leading southward at Petersburg or Meldon. Shoald the movement be made with two columns instead cf three, then Burnside will take the place of Butler, and advance up the peninsula. Such, at least, is the information received here from sources considered worthy of confidence. But the question occurs, will General Lee wait on his adversary, and give him time to complete his combinations, or will he assume the offensive, and strike him in detail ? A few days, the weather permitting, will bring us an answer this interesting inquiry. co Some additional inteliigenca - 4 come to hand in rEgird to the late operatior 6 in the Trans-Aliesi s • sippi Department, el' tided to in my letter of the 14th inst. A telr gram dated at 161obile yesterday says ;— S : " /Yr .-alter; despatches report a b a t t l e at _ad, in north-western Louisiana, April 8, lr _. Which the Federais under General Banks were defeated with a loss of 8,000 men. General E. Kirby Smith captured 35 guns, '2OO waggons, and 2,000 prisoners. The Federals admit a defeat. Generals Mouton and Polignac were severely wounded. General Steele (Federal) is surrounded on the Little Missouri river awaiting reinforce ments." Whether the particulars here given are correct or not it is impossible to say ; though there are certain features of the report, such as the wounding of Generals Mouton and Polignac, who are known to have been with General Smith, and the location of the battle at Mansfield, at which place General Banks would probably have atrived about the Bth of April, which induce this belief in official circles here that Banks bat tnet with a seri ous disaster, especially since some u the Northern newspapers admit a defeat, and say the accounts have been suppressed at New Orleans. As the pies much of th e coun t r y lyi ng Federal army o - an between 'ffilansfield and the Mississippi, it may be sore days before a full and circumstantial account of the battle can percolate through their lines, and the wide network of rivers, bayous, swamps, and cane brakes by which that distant region is reticulated, and in which General Banks, if ho be not careful, will become inextricably entangled. General Polig nac is the son of the late Prince Polignac, of France, and has been in the service of the Confederates since the first year of the war. He was present with the French army at the siege of Sebastopol, and took part in the operations which preceded the re duction of that stronghold. General Forrest, after the fall of Fort Pillow on the 12th inst., of which you were advised by my last letter, held the work for some days, and then proceeded to demolish it. The heavy guns by which it was defended, were thrown into the Mississippi, or rendered unfit for service, and the military stores removed, after which he withdrew his command to Jackson, in Western Tennessee, where ho has ebtablished his head quarters. Lower down the great river Colonel Powers, with 200 men, dashed into Port Hudson on the 71 h inst., capturing some guns and prisoners, and inflicting considerable loss in killed and wounded, considering the number of men in `ols command. Th e E uropean reader will kna-vs- what estimate place p of o a t t h b e e u e: i t t r e a d v a s g t a a n t e t. s stories n with n which tto papersh e regard to the treatment or the garrison at Fort Pillow by General Forrest. They remind one of the fables so extensively circulated just after the first battle of Manassas. To the foregoing instances of success and activity on the part of the Confederates I have now to add an irnprtant advantage gained yesterday by Bri gadier-General Mike, at Plymouth, on Albemarle Sound, in Eastern North Corolina. Telegrams re ceived at the War-office last night and this morning state that he had carried the place by storm, though I defended by strong perrnaeent fortificatiors, and bad taken 2,500 prisoners and 400 negroes, in• eluding one Brigadier-General, 30 pieces of artil lery, 100,000 lb. of bacon and beef, 1,000 barrels of flour, and a fall garrison outfit. The Confederate ironclad Albemarle, which was built on tho Roan- oaks River, and received the last plates of her armour only a few hours before the expedition started, co-operated in the attack, and per formed an important part in the reduction of the place, having sunk two Federal gunboats, disabled a third, and captured a small steamer. The entire garrison, numbering about 3,000, was taken, killed, or wounded, with an estimated loss on the part of the Confederates of 300. The force with which General Hoke performed this handsome feat did not exceed the outer works he sent i s n ,o a oo d e m m e a n n . d A f o f r t e a r s c u a r r r r e y n i d n e g r, but the Federal officer declined to comply. The demand was renewed after the destruction of the gunboats, and again an answer in the negative was returned. An assault was then ordered, when the men rushed forward with a shout, cleared the ramparts at a bound, and enforced a compliance with the demand at the point of their glittering bayonets. The negroes were the first, as usual, to throw down their arms and run forward with uplifted hands to surrender. It is now impro bable that Hoke will push on to Washington and Newbern, on the head waters of Pamlico Sound, the two most important towns after Wilmington, in that part of North Carolina. Thus you perceive with what zeal and energy these resolute people enter upon the campaign of 1864. In no instance since January 1 have they struck a blow in which they were not successful, and in no case have the Federals advanced from their water bases that they have not been checked or defeated. This unbroken series of successes has the morale of the army, had , h f a r p o p m y a e l f e a c c t co u ti p n o t n s was never so good as it is at this time. It may be added here that Grn. Beau- regard has been ordered to North Carolina, and that he will take commani of the forces in that State and Virginia, south et' dames River. So Gen. Burn side, if he should laid on the south side of the James, will find a liot in his path. Turning from milittry affairs to other topics, the English reader will pardon me for saying that the publication in Great Britain of the forged report of Mr. Secretary Ala'erg, of the Confederate navy department, and, espcially, the readiness, if not eagerness, with which it was accepted as genuine by Earl Russell when Mr. Adams sent him a copy of it, has produced t painful impression in this country. The domment contained internal evidence of its spuricus character; but, if it had not, the Co n f e d erates thi n k M r . Ad ams said enough in th e open i ng paragraph of his de spatch to the chief of the Foreign-office to put the latter upon his guard es to the origin and character of the paper. The latter does not seem, however, to have had his suspicious awakened on the con trary, he p eruses t h e counter f e it report) ateepts it as genuine, an f d or p t r h o e m it is eslto naughty remonstrate conduct. If EArl Confederates Russell was misled, were Mr. Adams and his Government misled also? If not, the Confederates are curious to know how Englishraen Will regard such a wicked attempt to de&ive their Government, and prejudice themselves against a people who are engaged in a death-struggle for their lives and liberties. And what estimate, they ask, is to be placed u - v on the character of a Government and a MLuister who resort to such reprehensible means for the aeccmplishment of their purposes ? A person on this side of the Atlantic, who is familiar with the tricks and subterfuges of the Northern Government and its agents, is amezed at the credulity with which their representations of the conduct and designs of the Confederate autho rities are received by intelligent Europeans; but if any one had said that the Secretary for Foreign Affairs of the first Power in the world could have been imposed upon by such a shallow device as that of the clumsy forgery in pesiion, not even the Con federates, who have not much faith in the professed neutrality of the noble earl, would have believed it for one moment. So far from Mr. Mallory having been the author of such a report as that falsely ascribed tutsim, I have the highest authority for saying that he has never written, much less sent in, any report whatever to Congress. This re- ticence on his part was the dictate of pruden tial considerations alone; for he could hardly hope to commit to print the plans by which he sought to provide his Government with a navy, or the number and description of the vessels he was building, or the waters in which they were to cruise, without the information et sore time reaching the enemy against whom they were to be used. The propriety of his conduct in this respect finds a happy illustration iu the history of the ironclad Albemarle, which rendered such important services a few days ago at Plymouth, and of the previous existence of which the enemy had bat little, if any, knowledge. The dismissal by the House of Lords of the appeal in the case of the Alexandra, a bare report of which has just been received, has given much satisfaction in Riehmon , l. The people here say that your Go vernro.ent aught to allow them to have the remaias In ' rams to meet t he Ir ish recruits , who m the y allow Mrb Lincoln to have, and that if Government will do this, they do not care whether they recog nise the Confederaty or tot. They may be Wellt ing in the fatuity of perception, but they say they cannot see the justice of permitting Mr. Lincoln, without let or hindrance, to replenish his wasted and beaten armies on British soil, while the poor Confederates are forced to run the gauntlet of all the Courts in the kingdom before they are allowed to bring out an unarmed ram. If the law has been evaded in the matter of the rams, has it not been evaded in the ttetter of the recruits also ? Is not the evasion in the one else as bad as the evasion in the other ? And, as an effort has been made to stop the sailing of the rams, ought not the same persistent Effort to be made to stop the sailing of the recruits? These queries are propounded every day by the people one to another, and, being unable to answer them myself, I send them to the Times that Government Old its friends may have an OP' portunity to make a fitting reply to them. The negotiations for the removal of the tobacco belonging to the French Government have been concluded, aid some of the vessels which are to take it hence have already arrived at City Point, a few miles below Richmond, on James River. The Confederate authorities have never interposed any objection to the removal of the tobacco, the difficulty being on the part of the United States, which have at last given their consent. Some of the tobacco, of which there are nearly 6,000 hogsheads, was bought before the war commence d, and some of it since. The vessels taking it out will not sto p at any Federal port, nor will they p a y any duties on the tobacco. Official information has just be en received of the capture of a Federal gunboat o n the Yazoo River by Wirt Adams's cavalry, and h er complete destrue tion after the removal of her guns and stores. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN'S has kindly o w ri y g m in e a n l p o r f e t s h s e afitrmwhoifchcoßxearjnadailivn y F oi r e a n n , klin worked, Mr PRINTING PRESS . — The pre sented to the Patent Museum. This press was for many years in the printing-office in Great Queen-street (the printing-office of the iluilder,by the way), and it is even believed that Franklin worked in that office, which is the oldest establi s h e d p r i n ti ng -house in London.—Builder. A MILL BURNT DOWN NEA R HALIFAX.— On Thursday mo rn in g , about 7 o ' c lock, a fire broke out in the dale room of Mr Outram's mill, Greetland, rear Halifax, and by 8 o'clock it was burnt to the ground. The fire is supposed to have begun by some hard substance pass ing. through the dale, and by friction producing a spark, he cverkpeople were upon the premises, and some of them 'mid a narrow escape, so rapidly did the flames extend. The fire originated in the bottom room of the mill,Which was five etoreys, and was occupied by three or four tenants. The damage is stated to be £7,000. The building and some of the stock are insured. [ADVERTISEMENT.] —H o lloway's Ointment and Pills.— Happy Health.—However provident, however careful man may be, he is s till destined to be assailed by sickness, and it is wisdom to be provided with a remedy against such a calamity. The ointment and pills discovered by Professor Holloway are acknowledged by every person who has tried them to pwsess the highest merits in curing all outward diseases and other maladies resulting from viulerce, ex posure, mineral poisons, or scrofulous taints. This oint ment heals all dcscription3 of ulcers and sub2ues inflaroma nri iocrinrhis: aeTly brpaLu h mt eereist good,lnsficial uayh purity ewtati ei etiit occasional eda S sse t : r no ? xcn n vya g hl t .t, ,lodnnocpnsere;es6seaoernfri preserve tuettshet ailments ni s ei even in h frequently unite. THE PENINSULAR MAIL, The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-ship Poonah, Captain Sparkes, with the Peninsular and heavy portion of the Bombay mail, has arrived. Sh e b r i ngs 119 passengers, including the Hon, Mr Wingfield and Captain Johnston from Gibraltar. The Poonah has in freight 8 packages 'of specie, value £1,511, also 90 packages of silks and shawls, 60 bales of cotton, and 159 packages of sundries. On the 19th the Poonah spoke the steamer Batoda and steam-ship Himalaya bound to Malta. On the 22d she spoke the steamer Laconia bound east. Her Majesty's gun-boats Procria and Redpole were at Gibraltar, the Pysche, Tamer, Marlborough, and Cossack were at Malta, and the Turkish frigate Raschel and French frigate Perdrix were at Alexandria, Her Majesty's scr ew-frigate Galatea, 26 guns, from Port land, arrived at Gibraltar on the 20th, and proceeded on course up the Mediterranean. GIBRA L TAR, May 2. The Riff pirates in the neighbourhood of Melilla seem little disposed to be peaceful neighbours of the Spanish for tress, notwithstanding the settlement of the new territorial limits by the Sultan's brother, Muley-el-Abbas, about a year ago. The last letters from Melilla say that on the night of April 22 the Riffi ins had destroyed some of the Spanish works in the newly-annexed territory. The Spanish engi neers, it seems, have been constructing roads, bridges, and drainage works in the vicinity of their fortress, and the Ruffians, it is said, imagine that the roads were intended to facilitate the transport of artillery into the interior, and under this impression endeavoured to stop the progress of the works. The steamer Sydney Hall, which arrived on Monday from the western coast of Barbary, brings no commercial intelli gence of importance. The Sultan's edict in favour of the Jews, issued on the solicitation of Sir Moses Montefiore, does not appear to be at once productive of the practical benefit anticipated by the Hebrew portion of the Sultan's subjects. The fact is, that equal treatment of Mahometan and Jew is so alien to the spirit and practice of the Moorish authorities that it must be some time before the principle of even-handed justice to all his subjects inculcated by th 3 Sultan will be voluntarily carried out by his subordinates. In the meantime, however, the Jews invoke the protection of the representatives of the Christian Powers in the king dom of Morocco when Moorish governors commit acts of violence or oppression in contravention of the Sultan's edict. We believe that all the foreign representatives have now received instructions from their respective Governments on this subject. In addition to those before named, we are informed that the consuls. general of Portugal and the United States have been instructed to afford every protec tion to the Moorish Jew. The French Government is reported to have made certain demands on that of the Sultan in consequence of the murder of a French subject some months ago near one of the gates of Tetuan, and of the asylum afforded in Morocco territory to one of the Arab chiefs implicated in the recent rebellion in Algeria. The following are reported to be the specific demands of the French, to which they require complianem within 40 days, threatening to blockade the Morocco ports if due satisfaction is not given :-1. The surrender of the murderers of the French subject, or, if they cannot be dis covered, the payment of an indemnity of half a million of francs. 2. The removal of Hash Hash, the governor of Tetuan. 3. The surrender of the Arab chief who has sought refuge in Morocco. It is generally supposed that those de mands will be complied with; Another instance is reported of the sharp practice of the Spanish artillery at Tarifa, which has lately, on several occasions, inflicted damage on peaceful merchant vessels, and in one ease killed an English seaman in a North Shields vessel. The sneerer this time is the firemen brigantine Argo, which left the Bay of Biscay yesterday afternoon for New York. According to the master's report, he was be ' tween thtee and font miles from the share and had not yet arrived abreast of the Tarifa fort, when without any previ ous warnings he was fired into from the Spanish battery. The ball passed throngrh the galley and shattered the leg of the cook. The Argo was to wed back into this bay by the Lion Beige, and the wounded man is now under treatment in the civil hospital here. It is not yet known, we believe, whether amputation of the limb will be necessary, The Gibraltar Chronicle of the 13th instant says—" Her Majesty's gun-boat Procris has arrived here with the master and six men of the British barque Nelson, of New castle, the vessel which was recently wrecked on the Riff coast, near Alhucemas. ,The boat which was bringing these men to Tangier was, it seems, compelled by strong headwinds again to seek the shore two days after starting, and the Procris on threading her way back along the coast discovered their whereabouts from signals made by the Moors on land. The master and crew were very kindly treated and all their warts provided for by the Ruffians, and the Moorish governor of the district in which they were wrecked, Abd !slam Emkashed, The tribes of Riff have hitherto had such a bad reputation from their acts of piracy that it is pleasant to record this proof of their humanity to shipwrecked mariners. The old tradition that shipwrecked Christians are fair prey, and, if their lives are vouchsafed them, can Expect no better lot than to be carried off into the interior as slaves, still lingers amongst the wild tribes of the African coast. Some Spanish mariners, wrecked on the coast below Mogador were a short time since rescued from the hands of the local chiefs with some diffi culty, and after a captivity of considerable length. It seem of importance, therefore, in the interest of shipwrecked sea men of every nation, that some pains should be taken to en courage the natives of Africa to substitute for the barbarous practices of a former time a humane and hospitable treat• went of the mariners who may unfortunately be cast upon their shores. A liberal reward for every shipwrecked sailor brought in and safely delivered up to his consul at the nearest port would be the most infallible means of securing this object; and, if the Governments themselves do not undertake to pay such reward, it may safely be asserted that, of all the benevolent associations which are formed in Eng land for the accomplishment of real or imaginary good in every part of the world, not one would be more deserving of public support than a society for saving the lives of wrecked seamen, the subscribers to which would know that every shilling they gave would be employed to prevent a ship wrecked c untryman being knocked on the head or carried into captivity, and to ensure his being well treated, and restored to his friends." THE DANUBIAN PROVINCES, The Bucharest Journal publishes different officia documents relative to the coup d'etat of Prince Couza—his proclamation to the Roumanians, the decree dissolving the Elective Assembly, the statute explaining the enactments of the Convention of 1858, and the decrees on the press. The following is the text of the proclamation 1— " Roumanians,—Six years will soon have elapsed since the political existence of Roumania was solemnly recognised and •proclaimed in a treaty between the Sublime Porte, our suzerain, and the great Powers of Europe. This international act, of the 18th of August, 1858, endowed our country with liberal institutions the progressive develop. meat of which would have assured our prosperity. Roumania has nevertheless remained almost sta tionary. 'Whence arises the evil ? Having been raised to the throne by the unanimous votes of the Elective Assemblies, I had aeight to expect the co• operation of thode who imposed on me the glori ous but difficult task of reorganising the country. In 'ain Bate I given multiplied proofs of the most scrupulous reaped . for Par liamentary privileges, and successively called all parties to power; I have made numerous con cessions to the Assemblies, and have even spon taneonsly relinquished certain sovereign preroga tives; bat all to no purpose. The union of the sister Principalities has been accomplished; the monastic property, comprising one-fifth of the whole territory has been restored to the national domains; but these grand results, obtained by my Government, have been forgotten. The interests and dignity of your country, your wants and wishes, have been sacri• feed to evil passions. For his devotedness to the national cause, the elected Chief of the Roumanians has been rewarded with outrage and calumny, and:a factious oligarchy has unceasingly obstructed his efforts for the public good. I resolved to make a last appeal to the patriotism of the Assembly. In accordance with the great princii.les of equality and justice, I wished to see every Roumanian in a posi tion to'obtain by his industry a portion of the soil ; but the Assembly responded to:the law presented for that purpose by a vote of censure on the Govern ment. Such a state of things could no longer be endured. 1 therefore determined to call on you all to judge between the Assembly and the elected of Roumanians, and a new electoral law was presented for assuring to the country a more complete and truly national representation. This law the As sembly refused to discuss. I have consequently no other alternative but to make an appeal to the na tion, to the citizens of all ranks and all fortunes :, " ALEXANDRE JEAN. FATAL SCAFFOLD ACClDENT.—Yesterday an accident terminated fatally to George Pickering, aged 16 years, residing in Little College-street, 'Westminster. It appeared that the deceased was at work at the new build ings, near Chelsea Hospital, and was ascending a ladder with a saw on his head. When about 30 feet high, and in the act of getting on the scaffold, the saw slipped off his head, when he let go with both hands to catch the saw, and fell to the ground with a most fearful crash. He was at once removed to St. George's Hospital, and enired on his admission, ^TvIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. brJuh.- • , megle still pend. Achieved TIMES.—In the tremendous b.__ ing in Virginia the Northern armies havt, a certain amount of success. General Grant nh. succeeded in gaining, citt the terms imposed by his adversary, a very few miles of the road to Rich mond. The Southern General, after allowing the enemy to expend his forces in fruitless assaults, has taken up a position as thoroughly known to himself as unknown to his opponents, and there, if we may estimate his tactics from that has already tran spired of them, he will continue to make a stand until it is convenient for him to retire, when he will occupy a fresh position, and repulse his pur suers as before. The line of retreat which lies open to him comprises defences stronger than those which he has hitherto held until he thought fit to aban don them, nor is there the least evidence in the in formation before us of either exhaustion or discom fiture on the part of his trocps. But if the Southern Commander is thus adhering to his tactics the Northern Commander is doing the same, and with as much success, perhaps, as such strategy could in. sure. All his losses—and they appear to have been even more dreadful than the first reports described them—failed to stop him ; no sooner was he re pulsed than he attacked again, prepared apparently for fresh battles and fresh slaughter, until an end of some kind is attained. This is an entirely new phase of the war, due probably, in the main, to Grant's own stubborn vigour and peremptory will, but still preconcerted, and, as we are able this morning to show, anticipated by the South even more completely than by the North. Re ticence and secrecy were among Grant's service able qualities, but though he concealed his views from the people of New York he did not succeed in concealing them from the autho rities at Richmond. The letter of our correspondent ,a the south shown that the Confederate Govern. ment had obtained the most exact information of the Federal plans for the campaign. In a despatch written a fortnight before Grant commenced his march the operations whin we have since recorded are delineated with extraordinary precision. Three armies wer3 to move upon Richmond from three different bases—the chief force, under Grant, march- ing directly south from the old Federal position on the Rappahannock, and two others from east to west by way of the Peninsula and James River. Or, it is said, and as really happened, the armies would be two only, instead of three, one moving on the direct road to Richmond from the north, and one by ,he James River from the east. We could not, even after the event deeetihe more clearly the operations and the positions of Grant and Butler respectively, but it may well be conceived that if all this was so fully known the tactics of the Confederates would be adapted beforehand to every possible contingency. Of some of these designs, indeed, we are actually informed, and the event has verified the information. Leo did fall upon Grant precisely as it is said h'e would do, and if Grant had made war like Meade or M'Clellan it is probable that the defeat he received on the sth would have stopped the invasion of Vir ginia. But Grant was made of other metal. He advanced undismayed, though at a cost so terrible that it is hard to think how it can continue to be supported. This, however, is not all that may be learnt from our correspondent's letter. As long ago as the middle of last month a partialtransfer ot Go vernment business from Richmond to certain other cities had actually been ordered, and although it is stated that the proceeding was based on purely economical considerations, and was unconnected with any fear for the safety of the Confederate capital, our readers will have no difficulty in detecting some little preparation for the abandonment of Richmond in case of need. This brings us to the weak point in the present tactics of the Federals, and to the insurmountable barrier always before them. Grant is employing the strategy of Napoleon, and working out his plans by tha " military arithmetic" which promised a certain balance of results as the product of so many thousand lives. But there happens to be all the difference in the world between the cir cumstances in which he is played and those in which Napoleon applied this system. The point or position at which Napoleon aimed in such cases was really a vital point—the key of the whole business in hand ; whereas the Southern Confederacy, like the Confe derate cause, has no one vital point. Tao actual capture of Richmond, even if that triumph should crown Grant's desperate enterprise, will not bring the North a step nearer to the restoration of the Union or the conquest of the South. The saying of President Davis that the war could be prolonged for 20 years, even in the State of Virginia, after Richmond had fallen, will be in everybody's recol lection, and if Grant ever reaches that city he may find that his cool and resolute adversary, after exacting the utmost obtainable price for it in blood and slaughter, will leave the position in his hands, with no greater 'awe in it than attached to Wilder ness after it had served its turn and the fighting was done. After what has now been divulged of the plans and recorded of the operations of the contend ing armies we can estimate with little difficulty the prospects of the campaign. It is literally a ques tion of military arithmetic. Putting aside for the moment the value of the prize and the importance or unimportance of the result, we have only to calculate whether Lee, with the resources at his command, can, by the process which ho is so effectually employing, exhaust the resources of Grant before he reaches Richmond, or whether, on the contrary, in the common consumption of life Grant can outlast Lee. If Grant possess strength enough to continue to attack as he has attacked, it is clear that in the end he will arrive, in some plight or other, before the defences of Rich mond, and, if he can still maintain the same rate of expenditure, will some day enter the city. He him self writes to Secretary Stanton—" 1 propose to fight it out on this line, if it takes all summer ;" and he has shown by his conduct that we may take him at his word. If, however, his cool, resolute, and skilful adversary should be strong enough to continue up to the walls of the capital the tactics which he has hitherto employed, and if he can make Grant pay at the current rate for every mile of ground, it may be a question whether the re sources or endurance of the Federals themselves will prove as inexhaustible as the obstinacy of their General. At present we can only see that this dreadful game has been played by both par ties through 1Z days of battle and carnage without surrender on either aide. We have heard what Grant has been doing, and he himself does full justice in his curt but truthful despatches to the unconquerable heroism of his adversary. It is the rudest and most savage issue of war—who can stand most killing ? It is more than ever difficult to predict the result of a contest of endurance, but the Advantages of ground, position, and intelli gence are with the Confederates, and Washington has more than once been in greater danger of capture than we believe Richmond to be now. HERALD.—There can be no doubt that the con duct of Prussia throughout the whole of the Danish quarrel has been from first to last consistently false and treacherous, From the King and M. von Bie marek down to the lowest officers of the army which has amused itself with plunder and massacre in Denmark, the Prussians have displayed qualities which have equally surprised their friends and gratified their enemies. The quarrel was taken up with shameless impudence, only because it seemed to Prussia that she had a favourable opportunity of self-aggrandisement at the expense of a helpless neighbour; it was forced on with brutal violence, lest Denmark should disalan her enemies by eenoeding, at the instance of England, everything which they had demanded; and the Prussian Government actually dared to avow, in conversation with the representative of constitu tiovarEngland, that its main object in the war was to put down the constitutional liberty which ob tained in Denmark, and which Prussia felt as a reproach to herself. The war has been waged in the Same spirit in which it was begun. While their allies of Austria have kept in the background when ever treachery and falsehood were to be practised in negotiaiie`u• or brutal violence inflicted on the conquered, the Prid:sians have been ostentatiously forward in the display o: - of the cowardly nerfidy and brutality. We need not remind our readers , tted b the a. outrage upon the Danish dead, comm , i°ll orders of the Prussian commander , when ti:Yi4 of Idsted, the monument of brave men who ha, fallen in a glorious victory, was torn from its place on consecrated ground, and broken up by the " Schleswig-Holsteiners "—those true brethren of the Prussian who lust for vengeance without daring to fight for it, and indulge in the luxury of rebellion only when a foreign army is interposed between them and punishment. But we may call attention to the savage cruelties perpetrated in Jutland, and the impudence of the pretext assigned for them. Germany had made war on Denmark, despoiled her of her territory, and slaughtered her subjects, and the Danes had very righteously retaliated by seizing German ships wherever theycouldfind them. Against this retribution Prussia frantically protests—as if she wished to go to war without being attacked in her turn—and her general proceeds to levy on Jutland the value of the ships seized by the Danish cruisers. His exactions were to cease with the suspension of arms ; his Government solemnly arid repeatedly promised that they should cease ; yet Lord Ellen borough declares, and Lord Russell admits, that they have been continued; that in spite of the express engagements or the Prussian Government the inhabitants of Jutland are still being plundered ; that they yagrivirg e still forced to maintain the invaders in even to private soldiers such in dulgences as they never enjoy at home; that they are forced to furnish provisions which are not paid for, or paid for only in worthless paper ; that, in fact, the war is continued against them, in spite of the suspension of arms and of the distinct terms of the agreement entered into by the representatives of the Powers assembled in Conference. This shame- less violation of tr ea ty i s i n str i ct accor d ance w i t h tho policy which Prussia has pursued throughout ; and we regret to say that the subm issive . i patience which this outra ge is endured is equally n witn --ith the course consistent ly followed by accordance England. It is with feelings the Government 0. as largely as anger, that into which shame enters, : we describe the outrageous cox_ duct of Prussia and Lord Russel] the sufferings of the unhappy Danes. , ell. otever is satisfied, satisfied, no doubt, to reflect that vir may have done or left undone, he has at least caved his country from the calamities of war ; that what ever exactions may be levied upon Denmark, out income tax is only 6d. in the pound; that however, completely ruined may be the trade and agriculture of Jutland, our commerce continues to increase and flourish; and that, however frightfully the Danish , army may have suffered in the uneqtrat struggle, no English soldiers fell at Dy bbol, and no English guns were sacrificed at the Dannewerke. He cougratu• lates himself on having forced his country to play the Levite's part and, seeing the friend that had fallen among thieves, to pass by on the other side, But we—and among us the nation at large—feel anything but gratitude towards the Foreign Secre tary for an immunity from sacrifices and from danger which has been purchased at the expense of hon our. We recognise that selfishness is as hattfur and cowardice as loathsome in a nation as in O. individual; and we agree with Lord Ellenborough. that the.wealth and power of England impose on her other duties than those of idle enjoyment and slothful indifference, and that it is her duty as re. great Power to do good and prevent wrong. More than this, we believe that such persevering and continual dereliction of that duty as has marked the course of the present Government can only end in depriving us of that position. We hold our rank among nations only on condition of performing the duties of that rank; and Heaven has so ordered it that the non-performance of those duties will of itself involve a forfeiture which English pride will not find it easy to bear. International rank depends on international public opinion ; and already in that opinion the position of England is • lowered and degraded. As Lord Ellenborough truly says, the n opinion of a Power which is et prepared to maintain its vote by the sword is of no account in the counsels of those who are; and et) long as it if, understood that England does not mean to fight when her advice is slighted or her dignity affronted, so long slights and affronts will be her daily portion. Such diplomacy as that of Lord Russell, who writes peremptory despatches which he is not prepared to support by vigorous action, who meddles with advice and remonstrance, at the same time that he announces that he is not going, happen what may, to interpose with shot and shell, and who lectures Powers that he is not ready to fight, while he undertakes to direct the policy of allies whom he finally refuses to support, has no. other effect than to bring England into deeper con tempt and odium. France sneers at us for our pru dence, and censures us, not unjustly, for the sudden retreat by which we left her in the lurch, betrayed in the presence of her rival and humiliated in the face , of Europe. Germany hates us for our denunciatiort and Denmark bitterly reproaches us that we de nounced her wrongs so loudly when we had no notion of resenting and redressing them. Our lan guage, as Lord Grey said, has been the scolding of an impotent old woman, and the regard that is now' paid to anything we may say is proportionate to. the past energy of our action, not to the violence of our words. It is not unnatural, therefore, that the authority of England in Europe should scarcely be greater than that of Spain. It will take a great war, and many years of heroic sacrifices, to retrieve the injury we have suffered from Whig cowardice and Brummagem economy. Lord Russell's only plea for himself is, that we were not bound to in. terfere alone on behalf of Denmark, because France and Russia were equally bound to defend her. So, for that matter, were Austria and Prussia, her spoilers; and if their attack could not exonerate tie from our obligation, neither could the defection of France and Russia. If, indeed, Denmark had bean attacked by a combination which we ourselves were powerless to resist, there might be an excuse for our leaving her to her fate, provided we also ab stain from embarrassing her by our advice. But, as it was, we have no excuse to plead. We attain. Boned her in the face of an enemy whom we could have beaten, after giving her advice which implied conditional support. Who ventures to say that England is not a match, in a sea-girt peninsula. for Austria and Prussia ? And England would not have been alone. Who ventures to say that, with the aid of 30,000 English and 30,000 Swedish troops, the Danes would not have held the Danne werke or even the line of the Eider ? Who sup poses that Austria would have dared to go to war it an English fleet had appeared off Trieste while the Italian army, 300,000 strong, was gathering on the Mincio and the Poi if France and Russia. held aloof, we had yet the meats of bringing against the aggressors a force which they could not have overcome and a peril which they could hardly have faced. We had the power of saving Denmark ; we should have saved her had our Government dared to fight, and probably without fighting ; we were bound in duty and in honour to save her, and in abandoning her we have lost more than the cost of an unsuccessful war. COUNTRY MARKETS. LIVERPOOL—FRIDAY. There was only a moderate attendance of the town and country trade to-day, and wheat met with a limited busi ness at an advance of Id to 2d per cental. Flour difficult to sell even at a slight reduction. Indian corn finds buyers at a decline of 3d per qr. Oats and oatmeal very dull• Beans steady, but slow. STAMFORD—FRIDAY. White wheat, 40s to 425; red, 36s to 40s per 36 stone. Earley, malting, 308 to 34s ; grinding, 27s to 30s per qr• Oats, 17s to 22s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 40a to —s 10 qr.; new, 36s to —s. LINCOLN. With a fair quantity of whea were well maintained. Barb price. Beans scarce. A lair White wheat new, 39s:to 43s Red do. 37s to 41s Old white —B to —s Red do. —s to —s Barley, malting 348 to 36s —FRIDAY. at, last Friday's extreme ratet ley quiet, and unchanged ill, business in peas. Barley, grinding 28s to 320- Oats, old, .. 24s to 26 0 New,clo 19s to 23 0 Beans. 3 8 s to 400 I Beans, new.. 34s to 3715 WAKEFIELD—FRIDAY. The wheat trade was steady to-day, and prices were fu!IY, up to last week. In other articles there was no mater lm change. Averages for the week : Wheat 1,021 qrs., at 39s 641 Rve — Barley.... Beans Peas Oats C ORK—THURSDAY. a The following were the quotations this morning wheat, 8s Od to 8s 10d ; white, 8s Od to 9s 8d , barleY , ld to Os Od ; oat s 5s 8d to 60 4d ; black do., 5s 3d i ° 53 61 COAL Al floes of Coal per Ton ai LRK ET. Ule close of the market. S. S. d. Buddle'sWest Hartley 15 9 Cowpen Hartley 15 9 Lambert's West Hart- Walls End. Wharneliffe ......... 14 6 Hartlepool .......... .16 6 , Kelloe Braddyll's He"ao.n.. .....:1155 6 East Hartlepool ...... 16 6 Hetton . ... .......... 16 7 kleugh 11911 15 9 ! South Kelloe 15 South Hartlepool.... l5 6 ' Whitworth 15 qaswell South Hetton 17 Stewart's 1 6 u Tunstall 150 ; sold. 121. ley 15 3 Tantield Moor Bute2 14 0 Wylam 16 6 West Wylam l5 6 Eden Main l5 0 Byass's Bebside West Hartley ....15 6 Hastings Hartley ....15 9 Walls End. Gosforth l4 3 liarton 14 3 Ships at market Births. CONSTABLE.—On the 26th inst, at at Hamilton-terrace , John's-wood, the wife of . Captain Constable, of 11.1"*C late Indian Navy, of a son , KENNARD — On the 26th i ns t., at 54, Cleveland-WI: Hyde-park, the wife o f Howard J. Kennard, Dui °. daughter. MACKENZIE_On the 23d inst. at at Canon House, It c l; shire, Lady Mackenzie of Gairloch , prematurely daughter. __.;fo Of SRAIifSPEAR—On the 17th inst , at Sandgate, the vs' c o i one ; George Bucknall Shakspear, R,A., of a oon• Marriages. di of HUDSON—CRovaxI : —On the 25th inst., at the Ch ur to o f the Messiah, London, BirraingL to Miss Susannah Crowl e Y p am, Mr. Thomas Hudson, 15 or the Temple, Shortland House, near AlveChurch, Worcestershire,i3co, MANSFIELD—WHITE —On the 2,,th inst., at St. Ba rt of mew's, Sydenham, Frederick Man.sfield, youngest ad, William Mansfield, Esq , of Percy-p;ace, Clapharn_;.lo to Annie Bromley White, daughter of the late 3 1,6 " White, Esq., of Islington, Middlesex. Deaths. • r 3C4 . CRISPIN—On the 22d inst , at West Dilworth, -v i, °' General Crispin, aged Sion HOOPER—On the 27th inst., Mr. George Hooper, 0. College-gardens, London, aged 41. . hOr . LON MAN —On Thursday, the 26th inst , after a,. 9- „g p illness, Louisa Frances, second daughter of Win. 14°- man, Etq., Hyde Park•square, London. , T _T o nsey PALMER—On the 23d inst , at his residence, Eago 4-- liampten Wick, Joseph Palmer, Esq , aged 73. co y, Swirty—On the 24th inst., at Torquay, ShaPlo ld Sll ijiat Esq., of New Court, Cheltenham, and TubberluVg., county Weaford,J.P., late Captain Queen's Own ii: v t ; r a 4 only son of the late Shapland Swiny, law, of Harcourt-street, Dublin. _-----'.":---- Esq., barrio . 1.•••••••••=mmum........nra5aii...............-- ..., , Ell London: Prtn - zed and Prbtished by wiLLuatAlsl,-,-- '111!,,, of O. 112, Strand, Printer, at Titz SIIN Office .o°•_., e i Strand, .11 the Precinct of the 3avoy, .ri tbe C 0111147 Alildiefiex —Saturday, Jklay 28, 1864. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY .EV.ENING, MAY 2g,